Ricky Ficarelli does some rather good editing for his duel drum kit cover of Lady Gaga's Telephone. I was initially hoping it was twins and not one guy.... bummer. But the mix is cool. Not Travis Barker cool, but alright.
Do something fun with your kids this weekend and get their creative juices flowing with help from this arts & crafts tutorial! In this video, learn how to make a giant tissue paper flower with your kids. Perfect for a children's room or to decorate a wrapped present! Make giant tissue paper flowers with your kids.
Jane O'Connor, author of the Fancy Nancy books, joins Martha to make fancy, no-sew pocketbooks for kids. Materials needed are wool felt, fabri-tac glue, hand punch, boa, necklace, or scarf (for handle) plastic rhinestones, butterflies, and flowers (optional). You will also need a template which you will find on the article part of the video. Make a no-sew, fancy kids' pocketbook.
Shoot-em-up games, or shmups, consist of lone or small groups of players shooting at and being shot at by hordes of colorful enemies. The genre is thought to have peaked in the mid-'90s, but recent games in the indie world may be saying otherwise. Geometry Wars and other twin-stick games kicked off the trend, but newbies Trouble Witches NEO, Outland and just-released Gatling Gears have brought some much needed originality into the modern shmup scene—making it something worth exploring again. ...
In this video, learn how to make a homemade lava lamp with your kids! Do this fun activity as a learning experience or science experiment and help get your children's creative juices flowing! Learn step-by-step how to create this neat-looking lava lamp in the comfort of your own home. Create a homemade lava lamp with your kids.
Here's a fun science project that kids will love, Floating Bubbles! Make floating bubbles with kids.
Martha Stewart shares some great ideas for throwing a kids' bandanna-theme birthday party. If you're planning a child's celebration, creating a theme from scratch can be as simple as selecting fun paper and rubber stamps. Here, Martha used bandanna and dot patterns to create a festive and fun celebration that's perfect for children of all ages. Plan a kids bandana party.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to grow plants with Sid the Science Kid. Sid the Science Kid is a half-hour PBS Kids series. To begin, viewers will need a cup filled with soil. Users will be planting a lima bean. Push the lima bean deep into the soil and add some water. Now take the cup and put it at a window sill to receive sunlight. Make sure that you water the plant everyday. Once the plat is too big for the cup, put it into a pot. This video will benefit those young viewers who ...
There's a ton of videos on the web of musicians playing homemade PVC instruments, but I just recently stumbled upon the impressive work of PVC pipe player Kent Jenkins, aka Snubby J. His most recent video features a duet with his faux-twin, playing "Wizards in Winter" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Turns out, he's been a PVC maestro for awhile now and even auditioned for his inspiration, the Blue Man Group, at the age of seventeen. Though he wasn't picked, they saw potential in him and aske...
For $2400 this thing might as well be covered in diamonds and friend chicken. Looking to blow a month or two of rent on something less responsible? Sure, rent might put a roof over your head but it never gave you 49.99 frames per second on Crysis.
I don't know what they are feeding the kids in Canada but there are so many great bands coming out of there. Vancouver's Terror Bird are no exception. Made up of Nikki Never (Modern Creatures) and Jeremiah Haywood (Twin Crystals), these two have released a few cassettes and a couple singles now. "Sociopaths are Glam" is my favorite so far. This was a cassette release on Night People out of Iowa City. The music is dark and murkey, lo-fi synth pop. They pull from mid 80's dark wave but their m...
Stock prices be damned, HTC is ready to right the ship with it's soon-to-be-released follow up to the HTC One. The financially challenged device maker, according to inside sources, plans a March release for it's newest flagship.
Here is a fun craft your older kids can do with their younger siblings. Step by step instructions on how to create an ABC book to help young kids learn tthe letters of the alphabet. Create an ABC book.
An alternative to trick-or-treating every Halloween is to have kids participate in a scavenger hunt. The activity provides the same excitement and still allows you to be with your kids while they participate. A scavenger hunt can be easily organized – here are some steps in preparing for a Halloween scavenger hunt:
The release of Tron: Legacy is just two weeks away, and if our in depth guide to Tron-a-Sutra didn't get you revved up, perhaps the street legal Tron Light Cycle will. Via Wired:
This summer if you are in New York get yourself in some rubber soled shoes, buy a timed ticket in advance and run to the rooftop of The Met for The Big Bambu. It’s green, literally. It’s made from one of the most sustainable materials around. And it’s even recyclable! And you can walk through it!
Silly Putty! Putty that is silly! You can buy it from the shops but it is ever so easy to make your own homemade putty. Resident VJ scientist Mike the gorilla shows us his technique. Make silly putty for kids.
Kids who watch a lot of television can easily become couch potatoes. Personal trainer Jackie Curley offers advice and tips on how to motivate kids to be more active even while watching television. Suggestions include having kids do exercises during commercials. Prevent your kids from becoming couch potatoes.
These bubbles are incredible. The key to their stable state is in the homemade bubble recipe.
In this video, Sid the Science Kid shows us how to use a magnifying glass. When you first grab it, look at your hands through the glass, and then your friends! Look at their hands, eyes, skin and explore the world around you. Look around at everything around you and notice if it makes things larger. Look at small insects like roly-polies, to see how they move and how many legs they have. A magnifying glass is a great way to explore science and make little things much bigger. Children should w...
In this video of Sid the Science Kid, the process of melting the ice is shown to the children. A teacher brings a frozen box full of fruits. The children then touch the box and understand how it feels to touch the ice. It feels cold, wet and hard. The children then draw an illustration of the frozen box. The teacher then asks them to break the ice to take out the fruits but since the ice is so hard , no one is able to break it. Then the teacher brings in a jug of water and pours it over the i...
Here's a winner! You have to go to kind of a backwoods ass town where Jackass might not be too known to make this believable. You set up sort of a small "village bar" in the middle of town where there's a lot of foot traffic.You'll bring a gathering of kids with various heights and let them in on the stunt. The "bar" has to be set at just the right height to where some kids can see over the bar counters and some can't. The stunt is to set up an outdoor village "beer bar" that is only served d...
No family backyard is complete without a sandbox. Learn how to make your own sandbox with your family. It's a great way to spend time together, fun for your kids, and way more original than buying one. This sandbox looks like a car! Build a sandbox.
Laura shows her group of A-TV friends how to accessorize with this chic and easy to make belt in this how-to video. Being fashionable has never been simpler! You will need 2 D rings, a gross grain ribbon, a measuring tape, a needle, and thread. Follow along with this video kids' activity tutorial and learn how to make a d-ring grossgrain ribbon belt. Make a d-ring grossgrain ribbon belt.
Halloween has become one of the most popular holidays of the the year in the United States. Retailers even lease out empty retail spaces to put in Halloween stores.
Teach your children how to bake the fun way! Start with some basic bread dough and the roll them out into fun animal shapes. The ingredients are: 1 packet of yeast, 2 cups warm water, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/4 cup vegetable pil, 5 cups flour, 2 teaspoons salt and nonstick cooking spray. Make fun bread animals with your kids.
A kid shows Criss a magic trick with a crayon, then teaches the trick to the audience. This is a trick from Criss Angel's Mindfreak done by a kid. The secret is in quick coloring of your finger which exposes the color of your fingernail. Then you ask the questions! Pull the Crayon trick with Criss Angel of Mindfreak.
Here is a magic trick for the kids. Ever want to learn how to make a coin go through something? Be the first kid on your block to learn how to make a coin go through a jar and make all your friends believers in your magical abilities. Make a coin go through rubber.
If your kids are into sports, or just like running around the yard, they'll love having their very own soccer goal. Better yet, building it makes a great family activity, it is inexpensive, and only takes about 2 hours to construct. Build a soccer goal.
In this cooking how-to video Carrie cracks the case on cooking eggs. Get the 411 on all your favorite egg-making techniques. From scrambled to poached…you'll be an expert egg-maker in no time!
Natural disasters happen for different reasons. Some are related to weather such as lightning storms, hurricanes, tornados and winter storms. This videos describes the results of each. Other natural disasters are earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis and wild fires. Teach kids about natural disasters.
Watch a cute tutorial perfect for everyone. Follow along as Jake Ludington shows you (or your children) how easy it is to use these utensils from the far East. All you need is some wooden chopsticks that come in a paper sleeve and a thin rubber band. The video tells the rest of the story. Make chopsticks for kids to use.
Have you ever had this happen? You’re in public and a child loudly asks a question about someone else’s appearance. Learn how you can handle these types of questions and comments. Learn how to participate in shaping your child’s understanding of how to treat others. Teach your kids to care about others.
To most gamers, video games are largely devoid of place. In the post-arcade era, the only real world locations most associate with video games are GameStop and the couch. But there's so much more to them than that!
When I used to play Magic every day during 7th grade, one of my regular opponents was a kid named Eddie. He played an all-Blue, deck, the first I'd ever seen. At that point I was even more creature-obsessed than I am now and my deck were unwieldy hulks practically begging to be shamed by an all-Blue deck. I couldn't hurt him. Every time I tried to do something he had a response, a way to negate what I was doing. He would barely ever hurt me. He would win games just by making me play for so lo...
KIDS was an iconic film, but poster did not impress me
To make applesauce, you start by peeling some apples and then cut them up and put them into a bowl. Add some cinnamon and water to the cut up apples. Use a potato masher and mash up the apples and mix the ingredients all together. Mashing up the apples is hard, so you have to have perseverance. Once you've mashed them up, pour them into a pot and heat them up on the stove. The heat will change the apples, making them very soft. After you've heated them and they have softened up, pour them bac...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to evaluate texture by going on a texture hunt. You will need to do this task in a group. Begin by going around the room and finding a texture that you like. Touch all kinds of things to feel the texture. When you found your texture, bring it back to the group and evaluate it. You will compare and contrast how the object feels. The texture of the objects will vary. They can be smooth, rough, hard, soft , sharp or have any other kind of feel. This vide...
Maybe your kids are using iPhone/iPad too much, as a parent, you want to know what they are having to deal with to help guide them through of that. Here is the tutorial on how you can parental control your kids on iPhone/iPad. You are able to monitor as well as take control of their devices. Kids’ activities on iPhone/iPad like SMS, chats, web browsing will be recorded and you can check them remotely with e-mail without getting access to the devices. OK, here comes the steps: Step 1:
A perennial kid's favorite, the tater tot! Why buy overprocessed food when it's so easy to make your own at home? All you need is: 10 peeled and diced potatoes, 8 cups of water, 1 pound of butter, 4 cups of flour, 4 whole eggs, 4 egg yolks, 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 cup of potato flakes. Make your own delicious tater tots at home.
